The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 - 13 pages |
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... Indian Chronology , extracted from Sanfcrit books , or collected from converfations with Pandits , and to fubjoin a few remarks on their system , without attempting to decide a question , which I fhall venture to ftart , " whether it is ...
... Indian Chronology , extracted from Sanfcrit books , or collected from converfations with Pandits , and to fubjoin a few remarks on their system , without attempting to decide a question , which I fhall venture to ftart , " whether it is ...
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... Indian ages are supposed to confist , mean only years of twelve days ; and , in fact , that fum , di- vided by thirty , is reduced to an hundred and forty - four thousand : now a thousand four hundred and forty years are one pada , a ...
... Indian ages are supposed to confist , mean only years of twelve days ; and , in fact , that fum , di- vided by thirty , is reduced to an hundred and forty - four thousand : now a thousand four hundred and forty years are one pada , a ...
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... Indian cycle , into an hun- dred and eighty , or the Tartarian period , called Van , and of two thousand eight hundred and eighty into nine , which is not only one of the lunar cycles , but confidered by the Hindus as a mysterious ...
... Indian cycle , into an hun- dred and eighty , or the Tartarian period , called Van , and of two thousand eight hundred and eighty into nine , which is not only one of the lunar cycles , but confidered by the Hindus as a mysterious ...
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... Indian aftronomers in very early times had made more accurate obferva- tions than thofe of Alexandria , Bagdád , or Marághah , and ftill more improbable that they should have relapfed without apparent cause into error , we may fuppofe ...
... Indian aftronomers in very early times had made more accurate obferva- tions than thofe of Alexandria , Bagdád , or Marághah , and ftill more improbable that they should have relapfed without apparent cause into error , we may fuppofe ...
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... Indian accounts of the Creation and the Deluge with those delivered by MOSES . It is not made a queftion in this tract , whether the first chapters of Genefis are to be un- derstood in a literal , or merely in an allegorical , sense ...
... Indian accounts of the Creation and the Deluge with those delivered by MOSES . It is not made a queftion in this tract , whether the first chapters of Genefis are to be un- derstood in a literal , or merely in an allegorical , sense ...
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afferted affuming affured aftronomers alfo alſo ancient anſwered Arabick beautiful becauſe beſt BHAIRAVA bloffoms bofom bower BRAHMA BUDDHA called cauſe Chaturanga Chineſe cloſe compofed confifts CRISHNA damfel defire deſcribed divine eſpecially expreffed eyes faid fame fays fecond feemed feven fhall fince firft firſt fleep flowers folar fome foul ftars fubject fuch fuppofed fyftem grant flowers heart HERI himſelf Hindus hiſtory houſe hundred India Indian INDRA iſland itſelf juſt king laſt leaſt lotos lunar Magadha manfion meaſure MENU modes moon moſt mufick muft muſician muſt night obfervation paffage paffed paffion Pandits Perfian perfon pleaſure praiſe preſent prince purpoſe RA'DHA raiſed reaſon reſemblance reſpect ſaid Sanferit ſeems ſeven ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould SO'MA ſome ſtars ſuch ſuppoſed ſyſtem thee themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion univerfal uſed vafe Véda's Védas verſes VISHNU weft whofe whoſe